So much so for claiming that Christians are peaceful and that they are
peacefully spreading the word of cry..will the media only cry when
misisonaries are attacked and turn a blind eye to real terrorists..is
a hindu life not as important as that of a christian or a muslim..my
heart aches to see the plight of this girl? Since my heart aches at
this do I become a hindu fundamentalist? I have all questions and
anger, but no answers, can someone answer..specially the so called
secularists who keep mum at such atrocities and say this is not done
in the name of religion?

A hysterical Sabita Debnath, a 14 year-old girl, slams her head
repeatedly against the wall of her mud-built house and cries she does
not live any more.

Sabita has been made an orphan in a matter of minutes as Christian
terrorists of the National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) gunned
down and wiped all other members of her Hindu family in a matter of
minutes and her sob reverberates across this sleepy village of West
Tripura district.

"I do not want to live any more because my entire family was wiped
out
today. There is nobody to look after me", she scarcely puts in her
words together to a team of visiting journalists. This picturesque
Hindu village in West Tripura district turned into a killing field as
the Christian insurgents trained their guns on the hapless Hindu
inhabitants in the wee hours on Sunday.

"The terrorists entered our house at around 2 AM by breaking open
the
wooden door with sophisticated arms and gunned down my father before
my eyes," she sobs inconsolably. "I hid myself under a cot.
My two
younger brothers - Aurobindo (4) and Amar Chan (8) who woke up at the
sound of firing were the next causalities. The attackers then turned
to my mother (Niva) and shot her dead too.

"I saw my family wiped off in just about five minutes. Probably
they
missed me because I was hiding under the cot," she says. Altogether,
eight Hindus, including four women and two children, were killed in
the attack. The ultras did not spare even 102-year-old Premanandamoyee.

Police say the terrorists dragged several Hindu men from their homes
before shooting them.

In another dangerous development, two of the state most feared
Christian terrorist organizations, the National Liberation Front of
Tripura (NLFT) and the All Tripura Tiger Force (ATTF) have joined
hands and have agreed to conduct 'joint operations' against Hindu
civilians and the Indian government.

Till 2003, the two outfits were sworn enemies and often fought pitched
battles to extend or preserve their hegemony in the hilly areas of the
state. But a series of surrenders and desertions by a large number of
lay cadre as well as top commanders have led to major depletion in the
ranks of both groups.

After a secret meeting, the leaders of the two violent groups,
including Ranjit Debbarma of the ATTF and Biswamohan Debbarma of the
NLFT, reached an understanding last month over joint operations.

Sources in the Special Branch (intelligence wing), of the Tripura
state police, said the terrorists' failure to strike hard on Indian
security forces and Hindu civilians on August 15, when they had called
a boycott of the Indian Independence Day, induced a rethink on the
part of the leaders of the groups.

Sources said in order to make their presence felt, the ATTF and the
NLFT have also reached an understanding with another terror group, the
Kamtapur Liberation Organisation (KLO). "In Tripura, the ATTF and
the
NLFT are preparing to launch joint operations with the KLO in the
run-up to October 15 which they propose to observe as a `black day'.
However, the nature and implication of their understanding with the
KLO is still not clear," sources said.

The armed cadre of the Christian outfits, who have already infiltrated
some of the interior areas of the state after crossing over from
Bangladesh, have launched their decades-old terror campaign against
Hindus in Tripura, both tribals and plainspeople.